Is This a Good Time?

A grandmother’s funeral, a family singing without instruments, and an almost blind eighty-six-year-old grandfather who loudly interrupts the pastor mid-sermon, that memory opens a question about timing. After a year of losses, illness and closed businesses, is this really a good moment to celebrate anything? The preacher leads us to Matthew 2, where nothing is where it should be: a false king, an occupied country, and yet wise men from the east are overwhelmed with great joy. Listen if you need a reason for joy exactly when it is hardest to find one.